Junior Software Engineer

Job Description

FARFETCH exists for the love of fashion. Our mission is to be the global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers.We're a positive platform for good, bringing together an incredible creative community made up by our people, our partners and our customers. This community is at the heart of our business success. We welcome differences, empower individuality and celebrate diverse skills and perspectives, creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We are FARFETCH for All.
TECHNOLOGYWe're on a mission to build the technology that powers the global platform for luxury fashion. We operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose-built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide, addressing complex challenges and enjoying it. We're empowered to break traditions and revolutionise, with the freedom and autonomy to make a difference for our customers all over the world.
PORTOOur Porto office is located in Portugal's vibrant second city, known for its history and its creative yet cosy environment. From Account Management to Technology and Product, whatever your skills are, you'll find your fit here. You can have an informal meeting in the treehouse or play the piano in your lunch break!
THE ROLEWe are looking for a Software Engineer to integrate our team focused on our platform for luxury fashion users and partners. You'll work on important services/frameworks, focusing on the latest security and application performance trends, building scalable and reliable REST APIs. If you are ready to embrace new exciting challenges, have the desire to continuously gather and share knowledge and apply it in a practical way then we want to hear from you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Develop and manage foundation services, applications and frameworks used by multiple platforms and engineering teams
• Work with architects to search and research new technologies
• Provide operational support for kick-starting technical projects and validate technical solutions
• Support operational auditing of platforms
• Stay up to speed with all backend and web technologies, software architecture principles and design patterns
• Be knowledgeable of performance and application security topics
• Understand the full development life-cycle with emphasis on software quality processes
• Design simple solutions to complex problems ensuring availability and performance
• Work with some of the following technologies or standards: Apache Cassandra, Redis, .NET Core, Kafka, Identity Server, OpenID Connect, Elastic Search, OAuth 2.0

WHO YOU ARE

• Passionate about creating the right tools and processes to improve the tech value
• Passionate about designing and developing large-scale distributed applications
• Knowledgeable of SOA and service communication using RESTful APIs
• Eager to learn and share knowledge
• A team player and great communicator (English is mandatory, Portuguese is optional but preferred)
• A person with great ability to assimilate, sort through and aggregate complex information quickly and effectively
• Familiarized with one or more from the following: .NET; Apache Cassandra or NoSQL database; Kafka or another message queuing system; Redis or another cache persistence